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  1. broadcom wireless on Usability Testing Hardy Heron With a Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    still no wireless out of the box.

    if i have to tweak it to get it to work i might as well stick with my old debian.

    but other than that it looked good.
    btw, the live CD took forever to boot compared to other live CDs i've used.

  2. what about corp. users on Red Hat Avoids Desktop Linux, Says Too Tough · · Score: 1

    the last company i worked for had redhat on about half the engineering desktops.

  3. Re:"Still not ready for mainstream" says I on Hardy Heron Making Linux Ready for the Masses? · · Score: 1

    "Then Win2k came out... Why should I continue to run an OS where my hardware (specifically my TV card) was not supported? "

    you mean like Vista?

  4. Re:Tony Starks armor clearly runs on Vista on Iron Man's New Villain — an Open Source Terrorist · · Score: 1

    i was thinking that Stark ran his suit on one of the BSDs

    he strikes me as the kind that wants to use others work but not give back.

    he only hates Linux becuase of the GPL

  5. Re:Ret-con on Russia To Build an Orbital Construction Plant · · Score: 1

    it looks like they are assembling it on the ground.

    that's just F'ed up

  6. two words on ISO Takes Control Of OOXML · · Score: 1

    Embrace, Extend

    ISO embraces

    MS Extends

  7. Re:To all the Linux fanboys on New Botnet Dwarfs Storm · · Score: 1

    damm,

    a little wine with that chip on your shoulder?

  8. Re:After reading TFA, what an idiot! on How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 · · Score: 1

    so trashing openGL must have been to comply with the DoJ and EU requirements.

    ok, it's all clear now.

  9. Re:If this is true... on How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7 · · Score: 1

    what will be funny is when Win7 users need Wine port to Win7 to run native Windows applications.

    say that ten times real fast.

  10. Re:skewed results... on Study Shows Males Commonly Mistake Sexual Intent · · Score: 1

    ROTFL,

    and me without mod points

    you nailed it.

  11. Greystones on A Battlestar Galactica Prequel Series on the Way · · Score: 1

    the article says it will follow two families, the Adamas and the Greystones.

    who are the Greystones?

  12. broken on NVIDIA Performance On Linux, Solaris, & Vista · · Score: 1

    the past few drivers had been getting better and better, but this one broke about half my 3D apps.
    the graphics start ok, but when i make any inputs(keyboard or mouse) what ever it is crashes.

    this is on a HP Pavillion Amd turion64 running 64bit Debian at Testing

  13. 42nd on Hitchhiker's Guide Turns 30 · · Score: 1

    now a real fan would be holding out for the year, 2020. that's when it turns 42.

  14. abused on New Lock Aims To End Chip Piracy · · Score: 1

    the two things that come to mind first are that it could be abused by large nameless (software, music, or movie,,,) companies that want to add "features' based on this technology.

    and second that the authors of various types of malware will find a way to exploit this and use it.
    anything that can be turned on can be turned off.

    one day your IT department gets an email saying that they will kill all your computers if you don't pay X dollars.

  15. Re:Yeah right on Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages · · Score: 1

    that must have been what that one they shot down was for

  16. Re:The Standard Objection Applies.. on Radio Telescopes on Moon to Study Cosmic Dark Ages · · Score: 1

    interesting. you'd get a cleaner signal but there would be other obsticals.

    wouldn't you need some form of communications system im place to route the signals?

    possible a satellite in a lunar polar orbit?

  17. assembly language programming on Obsolete Technical Skills · · Score: 1

    it was because assembly language programming was considered obsolete that my dad could make a living at it.
    there was still lots of code out there and someone had to maintain it.

  18. Michigan researchers on Theory Posits Early Stars Powered By Dark Matter · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Michigan researchers are using the same theory to come up with democratic delegates.
    similar research is going on in florida

  19. not much really on How to Convince Non-IT Friends that Privacy Matters? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    for most people all you will do is alienate them from you if you lecture them.

    it's like warning a girl that her new boyfriend is an @sshole.
    tell her once, but after that she just has to learn on her own.

    most people just don't care until it bites them.

  20. opened a can on Patent Troll Attacks Cable, Digital TV Standards · · Score: 4, Insightful

    just look at the list of companies.
    they may not get along with each other, but the last thing you want to do is force them to unite against a common enemy.

    i think they just opened a can of woop-ass.

  21. the wizard on Darl McBride Leaving SCO? · · Score: 1

    pay no attention the man slipping out behind the curtain with all the money in his pockets and the plane tickets to the Caymans

  22. Re:Need wooden stakes on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 1

    Vampires or Zombies?

    reminds me more of one of the Resident Evil flicks, only the script isn't as good.

  23. Re:Irrational exuberance... or? on SCO Goes Private With $100 Million Backing · · Score: 5, Funny

    maybe they want a tax credit for donating to a non-profit organization

  24. cool but, on 3D Crystal Grown On a DNA Lattice · · Score: 1

    "The ability to engineer such 3-D structures is essential to producing functional materials that take advantage of the unique properties that may exist at the nanoscale -- for example, enhanced magnetism, improved catalytic activity, or new optical properties."

    it sounds cool, but it doesn't sound like they know what to expect. they are guessing

  25. 3G +/- on 3G iPhone on the Way? · · Score: 1

    if i could pick someones brains.

    if you leave a 3G region will you just switch to a lesser protocol or do you lose connection completely?
    my wife has one of the original iphones(waited for the price to drop) and has really liked it.
    now I'm thinking about getting another for me and i'm wondering if this new one would be useless on long trips or will it just drop down to a slower speed.

    the new chipset sounds like it will extended battery life which is awesome. that was one of my complaints of the current one